Ensilage packer



June 12, 1923'.

Filed Nov. 5. 1921 Z v 'jaragoflfiwanf fig Z, I, INVENTOR Patented June 12, 19 23.

N D- T LORENZO 1). nARnow, orvnoa'rnrhAm-rrnrn, NEW JERSEY.

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Application fileii November 5 1921,. Serial 11o. 51 3,0164,

To all whomi z't may concern? Be it known'that I, LORENZO D. DARROW,

a citizen of the United States of America, residing at North Plainfield, in the county of Somerset and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ensilage Packers, of which the following is Another .bject is to produce a device of this nature which shall be simple of construction, cheap to manufacture, and highly efficient for the purpose for which it is designed.

With these and other objects in View, which will be more apparent as'the specification proceeds, the invention resides in certain novel construction and combination and ar rangement of parts, the essential features of which are hereinafter fully described, .are particularly pointed out in the appended claims, and are illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which I Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved ensilage packer.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same. I Y

Figure 3 is a detail sectional view on the line 33 of Figure 2. I a

Figure 4 is a View similar to Figure 3 taken on the line 4-11 of Figure 2.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts in both views. a

Referring to the drawing in detail, 10

represents a base'portion which may be of any suitable size or shape suitable for the purpose,-and is preferably formed with a well 11 in which certain working parts, hereinafter described, are suspended. Secured to the base 10 in any desirable manner are a plurality of, radially arranged'tamping bars or blades 12 which may be of any suitable length, structure and material, and are arranged so as to balance each other.

An upper-body section 13 is provided with V a central aperture14= and with a gear surface 15 surrounding said aperture. The under face of member 13 is provided with a plurality of spring pressed click-pawls 16 which engage a ratchet wheel 17 said pawls and ratchet whee'lbein'g ho-used'in said well 11; Members 10 and'13 may be secured together. in any suitable manner, as by bolts.

The ratchet wheel 17 is secured to a disk 18 which projects up into aperture 14 and g 1 1 is formedwith a pair of upstanding lugs 19 which form bearings for a rotatable shaft'20 which carries at one end a gear wheel 21 meshing with the gear'surface 15, Rigidly secured to shaft 20between the lugs 19, are two ratchet wheels 22 which'are arranged on opposite sides of a pulley 23 carrying ratchet pawls 24 engaging wheels 22. Av rope 25 passes about pulley. 23 having one end secured to a. stationary member and the other end operable by any suitable to-and-fro member (notshown) for'raising and lowerin the entire device-to effect tamping.

In operation, as the device is drawn'up, the pulley 23 is turned causing-pawls 24 to vturn the wheels/22, shaft 20 and gear 21.

Gear 21 meshing gear 15 turns the body 1 sections and tamping barsa portion of a i turn. Upon the release "ofthe rope the entire device descends, but the rat-chets 16 and wheel 17 prevent return 'movement offall parts except the back.

While I have described what I deem to be the-most desirable embodiment of my invention, it is obviousthat many of'the depulley which ratchets idly tails may be varied without in anyway departing from the spirit of my invention, and 1 I therefore do not limit myself to the exact details of construction herein set forth nor to anything less than the whole of my invention limited only by the appended claims. I

What is claimed as new is:

1. A device of the class described, the

combination of a body portion formed with gear teeth, a gear J co-operative with said teeth, a pulley, and means between said gear and pulley, g

2. A device of the class described comprising a tamping mechanism, a pulley,-and

means operable by said pulley for rotating said tamping mechanism.

3'. A device of. the class described, comprising a rotatable tamping body, a mem ber rotatgbly mountedin said body, means between said body and said member for permitting rotation of said member in one di- .rect1on,,a pulley mounted on said member,

and means between said pulley and said body for rotating the device in one direction;

4'. A device of the class described, comprising a rotatable tamping body, a member et carried by the lower end of said member,

rotatably mounted in said body, a ratchet a shaft rotatably supported on the upper carried by the lower end of said member, a portion of said member, a pulley loose on shaft rotatably supported on the upper porsaid shaft, means whereby said pulley may 5 tion of said member, and a gear on said operate said shaft,-and means whereby said shaft and co-operative with said body as shaft may operate said body. and for the purpose set forth. In testimony whereof I have aflixed my 5. A device of the class described, comsignature. prising a rotatable tamping body, a mem- 10 her rotatably mounted in said body, a ratch- LORENZO D. DARROVV. 

